Caitlin M Rivers is an American epidemiologist who as Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, specializing on improving epidemic preparedness.
15 Facts About Caitlin Rivers
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In 2011, Caitlin Rivers received a bachelor's degree in anthropology from the University of New Hampshire, where she specialized in medical anthropology.
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Caitlin Rivers has said that she became interested in public health after reading Tracy Kidder's book, Mountains Beyond Mountains, which was about anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer's work on infectious disease eradication.
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In 2013, Caitlin Rivers received a master's degree in public health with a concentration in infectious disease from Virginia Tech.
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Caitlin Rivers's thesis was on modeling emerging infectious diseases for public health support, using non-traditional, public available sources of data, such as data collected from social media and Google search terms.
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Caitlin Rivers specifically focused on data related to outbreaks of avian influenza A, Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus, and Ebola virus disease.
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Caitlin Rivers maintained the only source of digital repository of data during the Ebola outbreak.
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From 2013 to 2015, Caitlin Rivers was a civilian epidemiologist for the United States Army.
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Caitlin Rivers worked at the US Army Public Health Center as part of the Science, Mathematics, And Research For Transformation Defense Scholarship Program during her second year of her doctoral program.
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Caitlin Rivers worked on the Army's Acute Respiratory Disease Surveillance Program, where she worked with Army data to monitor and track trends in infectious diseases and pinpoint where they occur.
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In 2017, Caitlin Rivers became a Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Caitlin Rivers has used Twitter as a means of communicating her analyses as new data become available, refining the public's understanding of the trajectory of the pandemic.
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Caitlin Rivers analyzed syndromic surveillance data from outbreaks in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore and found the containment measures they were taking were actually effective at "flattening the curve" of transmission and reducing infections.
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Caitlin Rivers is an advocate for the open science movement, particularly as it relates to matters of public health and health security.
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Caitlin Rivers has worked to develop an ethical framework of research standards for analyzing and reporting on publicly available data, with a specific focus on data resulting from Twitter.